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Measurements of the polarization and spin correlation in top quark pairs ($\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$) are presented using events with a single electron or muon and jets in the final state. The measurements are based on proton-proton collision data…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-09 CMS Collaboration

Electromagnetic dipole interactions of light quarks induce distinct spin correlations in quark pairs produced at lepton colliders, favoring entangled spin-triplet state aligned along the $\hat{z}$ axis or spin-singlet state. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-24 Qing-Hong Cao , Guanghui Li , Xin-Kai Wen , Bin Yan

We discuss the spin properties of top quark pairs produced at hadron colliders at next-to-leading order in the coupling constant alpha_s of the strong interaction. Specifically we present, for some decay channels, results for differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Bernreuther , A. Brandenburg , Z. G. Si , P. Uwer

We consider the production of heavy-quark pairs in the collisions of polarized and unpolarized on-shell photons and present, in analytic form, the fully integrated total cross sections for total photon spins $J_z=0, \pm 2$ at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 B. A. Kniehl , A. V. Kotikov , Z. V. Merebashvili , O. L. Veretin

We investigate the multiphoton pair production in circularly polarized field via two level model. There appears obvious discrete ring structures in the momentum distribution of the created particles, in which the ring radius is mainly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Hong-Hao Fan , Lie-Juan Li , Zhi-Hang Yao , Orkash Amat , Suo Tang , Bai-Song Xie

We investigate entanglement transfer from a system of two spin-entangled electron-hole pairs, each placed in a separate single mode cavity, to the photons emitted during their recombination process. Dipole selection rules and a splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-24 Jan C. Budich , Bjoern Trauzettel

In this paper, we propose to test quantum entanglement and Bell nonlocality at an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). By computing the spin correlations in quark-antiquark pairs produced via photon-gluon fusion, we find that longitudinally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-17 Wei Qi , Zijing Guo , Bo-Wen Xiao

We discuss several mechanisms of heavy quark production in (real) photon-nucleon and (real) photon - (real) photon collisions. In particular we focuse on application of the Saturation Model. We discuss how to generalize the formula from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-25 A. Szczurek

We have completed the next-to-leading order perturbative QCD corrections to the virtual-photon exclusive differential cross sections for heavy quark production in deep-inelastic electron-proton scattering, i.e. $e + P \rightarrow Q +…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 B. W. Harris , J. Smith

Spin-dependent quark densities, matrix elements of specific density operators in proton states of definite spin-polarization, indicate that the nucleon may harbor an infinite variety of non-spherical shapes. We show that these matrix…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gerald A. Miller

The heavy quark production in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions is investigated, in particular we focus on the results from the coherent interactions given by the two-photon process. One addresses the heavy quark total cross sections at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 V. P. Goncalves , M. V. T. Machado

We investigate the quantum properties of heavy-fermion pairs, such as $t\bar t$ or $\tau^+\tau^-$, produced in lepton-lepton collisions with polarised beams. Focusing on spin correlations, entanglement, Bell-inequality violation, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-28 Mohammad Mahdi Altakach , Priyanka Lamba , Fabio Maltoni , Kazuki Sakurai

Spin correlations in the top quark-antiquark system and the polarization of the top quark are measured using dilepton final states produced in pp collisions at the LHC at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-05-07 CMS Collaboration

The vacuum is now understood to possess a rich and complex structure, characterized by fluctuating energy fields and a condensate of virtual quark-antiquark pairs. The spontaneous breaking of the approximate chiral symmetry, signaled by the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-10 The STAR Collaboration

We formulate the single transverse spin asymmetry in heavy quarkonium production in lepton-nucleon and nucleon-nucleon collisions in the non-relativistic limit. We find that the asymmetry is very sensitive to the production mechanism. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Feng Yuan

The quark helicity measured in polarized deep inelastic scattering is different from the quark spin in the rest frame of the nucleon. We point out that the quark spin distributions $\Delta q_{RF}(x)$ are connected with the quark helicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Bo-Qiang Ma , Ivan Schmidt , Jacques Soffer

The Large Hadron Collider provides a unique opportunity to study quantum entanglement and violation of Bell inequalities at the highest energy available today. In this paper, we will investigate these quantum correlations with top quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-08 Zhongtian Dong , Dorival Gonçalves , Kyoungchul Kong , Alberto Navarro

We present a first calculation of the heavy flavor contribution to the longitudinally polarized deep-inelastic scattering structure function $g_1^{Q}$, differential in the transverse momentum or the rapidity of the observed heavy quark $Q$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Felix Hekhorn , Marco Stratmann

The double coherent and non-coherent diffractive production of heavy quark - antiquark pairs ($Q \bar{Q}$) in heavy ion scattering at high energies (LHC) is considered. The total and differential cross sections of these processes with the…

Top quark pairs are produced with strongly correlated spins in the partonic reactions $q\bar{q}\to t\bar{t}$ and $gg\to t\bar{t}$. A complete description of these effects in terms of the spin density matrix of the $t\bar{t}$ system in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Arnd Brandenburg